BUS301: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

• Describe how to effectively manage human capital and properly assess knowledge, skills, and abilities to find valuable resources (people).
• Identify key laws and legislation that shape how human capital decisions should be made.
• Explain why managing human capital is relevant for all managers in any organization.
• Define and conduct a job analysis and discuss the validity of an analysis in support of other key human capital functions.
• Understand and develop a personnel plan, creating successful strategies for recruiting and selecting valuable human capital.
• Identify and apply the concepts associated with employee safety and health in support of effectively managing human capital.
• Create strategies to support the training and development of human capital.
• Identify and apply the concepts/issues associated with compensation and benefits to create an attractive environment that draws valuable resources to an organization.
• Explain the distinction between performance management and performance appraisals.
• Conceptualize HR strategies to improve overall organizational success.
• Identify the key elements and contexts of affirmative action and use that insight to support making informed decisions regarding diversity when managing human capital.
• Define and apply the concepts of labor and employee relations, and clearly define the relationship between the employer and the employee.
• Identify ethical issues facing HR managers today and explain how HR can help to build an ethical organization.
• Discuss the impact that career/succession planning has on human capital.
• Explain how to develop a personnel plan, creating successful strategies for recruiting, selecting, onboarding, and retaining valuable human capital.
• Explain why strategic resource planning is necessary to attract, recruit, and retain valuable human capital.
• Identify current trends and challenges in managing human capital today.

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